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ITER plans for all the core parts of the reactor to be installed, fully integrated and ready to produce first plasma by 2025. As the project progresses through the assembly stage and beyond, ITER needs controlled engineering information and reliable data to successfully complete each stage and hand over from one discipline to the next.

“With our current system, we have a fantastic basis to serve our clients [construction contractors, domestic agencies, operational clients, etc.] with robust engineering information,” Altfeld said. “Once the machine is built, we’ll have clients in commissioning doing the validation and testing. Then clients operating the machine will need maintenance manuals. And once all the research is done, the next client will carry out deactivation and safely dismantle the machine and bring the site back to nature. All these clients will need the technical information we’re currently generating. And they need to be sure in years to come that all this data is accurate and can support them in their role.”